The voices were getting louder in her head, screaming out to her and calling her name.
Waking from restless dream, the medic's hand dropped to where her stomach was. Se felt a twinge of pain in there as her mind kept playing the vision of two cloaked figures watching her with darkness in their eyes. "You are mine. I created you, and when you realize what you can do, you will rule beside me." The voice was detached and it made the searing pain in her stomach flare once more. This time, she could not stop the blood that spilled from her lips. This time, unlike all the others, it kept coming. The smell of blood was sickening her, making her vomit it more. The pain was so intense, she could see spots of black filling her vision. She just wanted this to stop.. She wanted the pain to end. Dropping to her knees, the rosette gasped harshly, her hands shaking as the rest of her body did.
"Come to me..." The words whispered, "You need this..." Sakura got from the ground, her eyes orange and blood drying into streaks down the corner of her lips. Slowly, she walked through the door to her home and through the streets of Konoha. Darkness still flooded the village as she walked through the gates. She followed the soft call that grasped at her. That pleaded with her to find them...
She came too in the last place she had ever wanted to see. This is where she had been overpowered and everything was taken from her. Her eyes widened as the orange receded. There, a man drenched in a dark cloak held something dear to the medic. "Shikamaru..." She whispered, the man that held him pulling down his cloak to reveal Danzo's menacing smile.
"How about a trade? I give you the Nara and you come with me?"
"No...Saku...Sakura, don't..." Shikamaru pleaded, his chest hurting with each breath.
"Fine! I'll come with you, just leave him alone!" She called, her eyes shifting orange slowly once more.
"Ah... there you are, my love." Danzo smiled brightly, "Yes, come to me.." As she reached him, she felt a chill down her spine as another presence made its self known..
And as he seized her, a voice grumbled from the person behind her, "She's not fully awake..."
"I will just have to change that." Danzo made haste with putting his knife through the Nara's chest.
It was as though time stopped.
It was as though life around them came to a halt and the rosette's eyes widened.
Darkness filled her vision as she felt as though her world came crashing down.
It did not take long for the Hyuuga, all the Uchiha, Sai , and Naruto to show up, just in time for Nara to be stabbed through the heart.
"Nonononononono. No! NO!" Her voice screeched a blood curdling scream and chaos erupted. Orange wisps came from her body and her eyes began to bleed a tint of orange that none had seen until then.
Sakura was freed from her captor's clutches as the Uchiha made quick work of attacking him and Naruto went straight for Danzo.
Sakura knelt beside the Nara's side as her shaking hands hovered over the man who's heart was finished beating. "I love you..." A softer orange glow came from the center of her chest and entered his.. Her body grew heavy as his began to rise and fall as each wound began to heal slowly.
Getting up, the wisps around her darkened and kanji of different kinds started burning into her skin, although it did not seem as though she even noticed them.
"Yes, finally... she is unlocking it! Yes!" Danzo cried out, causing all fighting to come to a halt. She slowly came to Danzon and bowed before him.
"Sakura-chan!" Naruto called, "What are you doing!? He just killed Shikamaru!"
"Shut it, blondie! She is mine! I made her! I..." His words were ended abruptly as they began to gurgle in his throat, a hand shot right through his chest.
The male that had come with Danzo appeared behind him and the two disappeared leaving the rosette and her team alone in the clearing. Before anything further could happen, the coughing that came from the Nara's mouth gained attention, Sakura's eyes turning emerald as she ran to him.
A small smile lifted the man's lips, "Way to make an entrance." Mused the Nara, "So troublesome." Shaking her head, Sakura kissed him softly..
"Idiot.." She murmured..
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Sakura shot up from her bed, the world around her spinning and her body aching.
'What was that!?' Screamed Inner.
'I don't... know'
A stirring beside her brought her back, a warm arm circling her waist, "What's wrong?" Came his tired voice.
"Shika..." She whispered, crawling in beside him, pulling herself as close to him as possible.
"Sakura? What's wrong?" He asked, confusion and concern clear in his voice and on his face.
She cried onto his naked chest, "It was all... a dream.." She sobbed, the walls she had built up for so long breaking and crushing down on her heart, "You were dead..." His eyes widened as he engulfed her into a hug, "I'm here... I'm here.." He murmured into her hair, trying to soothe away the remnants of the dream that seemed to have scared her so much.
"I'm so sorry.. I should have not ever have brought you into this.." She cried. He shook his head, "You didn't, I came into this willingly. I love you, Sakura.. I will stand by your side regardless of the outcome."
"Even if it means you dieing?!" She all but yelled.
"Yes, because you would do the same." Shikamaru answered simply.
*.*.*.*
The night didn't get any better, they decided to call upon their team of helpers and Sakura went into deep discussion about what happened, about her dream.. About the voice that called out to her and about Danzo. "There is someone else involved. He has someone else and I cannot remember who it is." She said, her voice cold and empty. This caused everyone to trade looks.
"What comes with this? Do you know what you are capable of?" Itachi asked, echoing the question every one else was thinking.
"I don't know.. I don't know what it is they are trying to unlock. I don't know the full ability beyond what you have seen.. In my dream.." Sakura paused, the memories just above the surface, "There was more. Symbols were being burned into me and I don't know what they said." Sakura admitted, earning another trading of looks.
Sakura hanged her head in shame.
What the hell was happening?
*.*.*.*
"She is waking up." Mused the hidden man, Danzo's eyes glistening with a sick sense of happiness.
"Good, soon. Soon."
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Author's note:
I am aware how short this chapter was and I am aware it didn't reveal much, but I am trying to achieve something here.. Hope it'll make sense in the end.
Toreh, I just wanted to say thank you so much for your kind words!
Blackrose1454, thank you for your reviews as well! I am so glad you are enjoying my story!
Much love.